A climate nonprofit has taken up the helm of NOAA 's recently retired Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, tracking the most expensive and devastating weather and climate disasters.

Climate Central revealed the return of the Billion-Dollar Disaster research analysis and website just five months after NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) announced its plans to shut down the database of billion-dollar disasters , citing "evolving priorities, statutory mandates and staffing changes."

Every year, NCEI released its billion-dollar disaster report, which included historic numbers of weather and climate disasters in 2023 and 2024 . The database dates back to 1980, including 403 billion-dollar disasters, resulting in nearly 17,000 deaths and damage totali

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